Jubilee years
2025 Jubilee Year SPES NON CONFUNDIT.
“Hope does not disappoint” (Rom 5:5).
In keeping with the tradition of celebrating a jubilee year every 25 years, Pope Francis is preparing us for the extraordinary grace our Lord wants to give us to be able to receive and experience God’s mercy in 2025 and beyond. Our Lord always provides what we need to persevere in tribulation.
2025 brings us to the 2000th anniversaryof the beginning of our Lord’s public ministry, and 2028 the 2000th anniversary of his Death and Resurrection. This event puts us into the “third day” of the End Times. Our Lord will return in glory. The second coming of Jesus Christ will bring an end to the tribulation and a beginning to The Thousand-year Reign.
Pope St. John Paul II introduced the Jubilee Year of 2000 as a celebration of the beginning of the third millennium, and more importantly, as the 2000th anniversary of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is forever present to us in all of our needs. Note: scripture scholars believe that Jesus was actually born between 6-4 BC. See “Chronology of Jesus.”
“The birth of Jesus at Bethlehem is not an event which can be consigned to the past. The whole of human history in fact stands in reference to him: our own time and the future of the world are illumined by his presence. He is “the Living One” (Rev 1:18), “who is, who was and who is to come” (Rev 1:4). Before him every knee must bend, in the heavens, on earth and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim that he is Lord (cf. Phil 2:10-11). In the encounter with Christ, every man discovers the mystery of his own life.” (Incarnationis Mysterium, chpt. 1, para. 3) “For us believers, the Jubilee Year will highlight the Redemption accomplished by Christ in his Death and Resurrection. After this Death, no one can be separated from the love of God (cf. Rm 8:21-39), except through their own fault. The grace of mercy is offered to everyone, so that all who have been reconciled may also be “saved by his life” (Rm 5:10).”(Incarnationis Mysterium, chpt. 6, para. 2)
“The birth of Jesus at Bethlehem is not an event which can be consigned to the past. The whole of human history in fact stands in reference to him: our own time and the future of the world are illumined by his presence. He is “the Living One” (Rev 1:18), “who is, who was and who is to come” (Rev 1:4). Before him every knee must bend, in the heavens, on earth and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim that he is Lord (cf. Phil 2:10-11). In the encounter with Christ, every man discovers the mystery of his own life.” (Incarnationis Mysterium, chpt. 1, para. 3) “For us believers, the Jubilee Year will highlight the Redemption accomplished by Christ in his Death and Resurrection. After this Death, no one can be separated from the love of God (cf. Rm 8:21-39), except through their own fault. The grace of mercy is offered to everyone, so that all who have been reconciled may also be “saved by his life” (Rm 5:10).”(Incarnationis Mysterium, chpt. 6, para. 2)